“This is murder. The confidence crisis in the city is getting too bad.”

A Shanghai nursing home resident was mistakenly taken to the morgue even though they were still alive, state media reported, as the city’s Covid-19 outbreak and prolonged lockdown stretch aged-care facilities and medical facilities to breaking point…

While it remains unclear whether the person was infected with Covid or vaccinated, the low inoculation rate among China’s elderly remains the country’s Achilles heel in the fight against the pandemic. In Shanghai, just 62% of residents over 60 years of age have been fully vaccinated, and only 15% of the population aged over 80 have received two shots. The average age of deaths reported Sunday was 84, according to the local government.

“This is murder,” one Weibo user wrote among a raft of other angry posts. “The confidence crisis in the city is getting too bad.”